Harvest of ABC Radio National metadata

Harvested: December 2023

The full harvest of ABC Radio National program metadata, containing more than 400,000 records. is available for download from GitHub in the following formats:

• 350mb NDJSON file – each record is saved as a JSON object, separated by line breaks
• 226mb CSV file

You can also download CSVs for individual programs:

• RN Breakfast
• RN Drive
• AM
• PM
• The World Today
• Late Night Live
• Life Matters
• The Science Show

Data fields

Any of the fields other than work_id and version_id might be empty, though in most cases there should at least be values for title, date, creator, contributor and isPartOf.

Column	Contents
work_id	identifier for the containing work in Trove (you can use this to create a url to the item)
version_id	an identifier for the version within the work
title	title for the program or segment
isPartOf	name of the program this is a part of
date	ISO formatted date
creator	usually just the ABC
contributor	a list of names of those involved, such as the host, reporter or guest
type	list of types (not sure how this differa from format)
format	list of formats (not sure how this differs from type)
abstract	text providing a summary of the program or segment (may incude multiple values)
fulltext_url	link to the page on the ABC website where you can find more information
thumbnail_url	link to a related thumbnail image on the ABC website
notonline_url	not sure...

Related resources

• Harvest ABC Radio National records from Trove

Additional documentation

• Run these notebooks

Getting help

• Ask a question at OzGLAM Help
• Report a problem
• Book an appointment

Cite as

Sherratt, Tim. (2023). GLAM-Workbench/trove-music (version v2.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10399140